Judicial Watch announced today that the Supreme Court of the United States has agreed to hear its appeal of the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in a case filed on behalf of Congressman Mike Bost and two presidential electors, challenging an Illinois law extending Election Day for 14 days beyond the date established by federal law (Rep. Michael J. Bost, Laura Pollastrini, and Susan Sweeney v. The Illinois State Board of Elections and Bernadette Matthews (No. 1:22-cv-02754, 23-2644, 24-568)). The lower courts had denied that Bost had standing to challenge Illinois’ practice of counting ballots received after Election Day. (The Election Day lawsuit was initially filed on May 25, 2022.).

Judicial Watch announced it receive 445 pages of records from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, revealing that speakers at the March 2024 “Founders Day” event were instructed to “AVOID saying ‘removed,’ ‘replaced,’ ‘deleted’ [when referring to the new mission statement] – just refer to the ‘updated mission statement and reinforce that the motto remains unchanged.” [Emphasis in original] The records also tie DEI efforts to the mission statement controversy.

“The National Archives needs speed up the release of the Kennedy records! At this rate, it will be decades before the files even partly are made available to the American people,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

With the southern border finally secured and illegal immigration at an all-time low, the Trump administration is cracking down on criminal aliens welcomed into the United States by the Biden administration, charging thousands with crimes including over 1,300 this month alone.